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On 5/8/06, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote:
> There are a few undead "apache myths" still floating around,
> due to clueless third-party tutorials. I wonder if there's any value
> in countering these zombies with specific notes in our documentation.
>
> Here's an example patch of the kind I have in mind:
There isn't much hope to fight this sort of thing when it is still the
only recommended configuration in the php docs:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php
If you still want to add a note, I suggest something more along the lines of
<note><title>Magic MIME types</title>
In very early versions of the Apache HTTP Server, the
<directive>AddType</directive> directive was also used to activate
special server-side processing (such as <module>mod_include</module>
or PHP) by assigning "magic" MIME types to files. This can create
problems in more recent versions and should be avoided in favor of
using the <directive>AddHandler</directive> directive.</note>
Joshua.